#count

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#because #book #books #call #cautionary

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ↗

— Willa Cather

#hangs #lies #long #old #shabby

The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club. ↗

— Howard Dean

#candidates #circles #club #country #country club

Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity. ↗

— Edward Dmytryk

#films #humanity #little #manufacture #nothing

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#artist #country #countrymen #everyone #his

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate. ↗

— Sam Ervin

#both sides #civil #civil war #country #displayed

Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements. ↗

— Bill Frist

#enable #future #harness #marketplace #personal

One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#counter #destruction #efforts #important #initiative

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#california #country #like #limb #me

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#country #fool #freeman #himself #his